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One Last New Episode of Futurama
Ant writes "Futurama's last new episode airs tonight at 7:00 PM on Fox." If you're missing your fix, there's a Futurama website with entirely too much Futurama info.
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I love that show. It was on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim for like a month, but now it's on TNN (I think TNN) at 1:30 am and 1:30 pm (Central time).
At least we can always have them on DVD.
As I grew older, I definatly got more into Futurama then the Simpsons, even though I've been watching the Simpsons since 1990.
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Simpsons started out more for children, then went to more of an adult/child mix and now, well they are running out of ideas and losing steam. The newer episodes of "The Simpsons" don't have quite the dry wit and snappy comebacks anymore like they used to. More or less reusing old ideas from a decade ago. Don't get me wrong, I still watch it, but not as religously as I did in the mid to late 90's (when I feel they hit their sweet spot).
Futurama is definatly more adult oriented, but still has the site gags and what not that children love, so it still makes for a good family show.
Then again it's not really fair to compare the two shows really. Simpsons have been around 14 years, Futurama 5. Though I do think the 5th season of Futurama is superior to a 5th season Simpsons, but Groening has grown as an artist since that time, so that can be expected.
Let's just hope Futurama gets the syndication that the Simpsons has, and I'll still be happy!
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FYI: Season two comes out this Tuesday.
season 2 out Tues., others in the future. Google for tv shows on dvd (I can't remember the exact site name) and you'll come across a site that keeps track of tv eps coming to dvd. They might have rel. dates for the other two(?) seasons.
They're called "volumes" instead of "seasons" because Volume 1 has all of Season 1 and the first four episodes of Season Two. Volume 2, I believe, has all the rest of Season Two. Season 1 was only twelve episodes, is why they did that.
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The site is not really down. THey just slipped in a blank index.html file.
You can view the full site here...
http://www.gotfuturama.com/index.shtml
Family Guy - when it was on Fox, I never knew when it was airing. Sunday? Monday? Tuesday? Friday? They kept moving it, so they were never able to snare a viewer base.
Taken from the site itself..
By the way, this last and final episode ties in neatly w/ this episode
This guy is way out there
get it now.
Pay attention to the message at the very beginning of the show. It reads "See You On Another Channel".
Here's an interesting part from the site: ... this very site A short excerpt:
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Looks like Futurama executive producer David Cohen has been busy giving interviews the last few days. In this IGN front page linked article, he talks about what he did in the meantime, what he wants to do in the future (including a movie project with Ken Keeler - the writer of tomorrow's final episode), the long-shot hope for continuing Futurama with Cartoon Network, the slightly better Futurama movie possibility, the upcoming Season 2 DVDs, the Futurama Video Game and
IGN DVD: Has there been grassroots fan efforts to save the show like there was with other series?
Cohen: There have been huge efforts but the network hasn't been too interested. There is an online petition that as far as I know is the largest petition in TV history to save a show, and there's a Web site run by fans called GotFuturama.com. That site ended up being the central location for fans to go to, and I admit that I go there to see an air date or something I've forgotten. They have a link to it (the petition). I think at one point they delivered a hardcopy to Fox executives which must have been the size of five Manhattan phone books. (laughs) And before questions flare up, I think he got the thing about the Game Cube Futurama video game wrong. All signs still point towards no go there.
It's going to be sad that I won't have Futurama on my Sunday nights any more (at least I won't have to suffer through King of the Hill afterwards). But thank god for Matt Groening and his DVD producion staff at Fox. The Simpsons and Futurama DVDs are some of he best released and reflective of how much Groening likes his fans.
If you look at other TV show DVD sets, Groening's collections can beat just about anyone out there. They are reasonabley priced (around 30-40 bucks at most stores) compared to some TV shows selling their sets at $80-100. The production quality is great, so you don't have to suffer through bad transfers (although there was an initial pressing problem with Simpsons S1 that was fixed). And probably the reason I love them the most is the fact that Groening and his boys sit down and do commentaries on all their episodes. They know that you can watch all the episodes and get a laugh out of them, but the thing that keeps you coming baack is hearing them shred their episodes to pieces. We've all seen Simpsons and Futurama on synidcation long enough to know a lot of the old episodes by heart, but the commentaries are pure genious. So it might be sad that the TV shows are leaving us, but props to Matt for a dedication to kick ass DVDs
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
I refer you to one of the latest episodes of Futurama, the one with the execubots. Family Guy fell victim to Execubot Beta (the dice-roller), while Futurama got nailed Execubots Gamma (programmed to underestimate middle America) and Alpha. (programmed to like things it has seen before)
Seriously, justifying things through ratings is a cop-out. Both shows are great, but the ratings system is set up to punish anything that's not ruthlessly mass-market. (Or rather, what the networks WANT to be mass-market this season) Simpsons came out of nowhere and hit them between the eyes in the early '90s, and they don't want to risk that happening again... But they also don't want to be seen as not sponsoring anything new. So you get kamikaze shows, like Family Guy or Futurama.
I like the Message at the beginning of Ep 5x16 "See you on some other channel"
James
(posting as a reply to my post to avoid it being drowned in the masses of replies to the main article)
http://www.canoe.ca/ Television/aug8_future-sun.html
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
also the episode when they were looking for the slurm prize and x-rayed bender's head. the x-ray of his head revealed a chip labeled 6502 (a logic chip).